Huacho: Suspect in Mexican disappearance tells police he ‘can’t remember’ where he lives

Juan Pablo Villafuerte Pintothe main suspect in the disappearance of Mexican citizen Blanca Arellano Gutiérrez, told the National Police he “doesn’t remember” where he lives after being called to the prosecutor’s office, said Commander Elvis Baños, head of the Huacho Criminal Investigations Division. .

The police chief indicated that Villafuerte evaded the questions he was asked. In addition, Baños indicated that there was a possibility that other people were involved in this disappearance. The defendant, after testifying, left for the city of Lima.

Recall that on Thursday, November 10, a group of fishermen found various parts of the dismembered body of a woman on Chorrillos beach in the city of Huacho in the Lima region. This fact was reported to the police, for which the staff of forensic medicine and public service.

PNP Colonel Santos Villar, chief of the Huacho police department, pointed out that the ring found on the found body was similar to the one worn by a Mexican citizen who traveled to Peru to meet medical student Juan Pablo Villafuerte Pinto. Faustino Sanchez Carrión University and with whom he allegedly had a sentimental relationship, according to the niece of the disappeared Carla Arellano.

Carla Arellano He claimed that his aunt had come to Peruvian soil to meet Juan Pablo Villafuerte Pinto in Huacho. However, after they allegedly said goodbye to the subject of return to their country, the woman stopped communicating with her relatives without further explanation.

prosecution announced this Monday that a forensic anthropologist from the Institute of Forensic Medicine will travel to Huacho to perform an autopsy on the body of a woman found on a beach in Huacho believed to be a Mexican tourist.

Embassy statement

The Mexican Embassy in Peru said that since last Friday they have become aware of the case of Blanca Olivia Arellano Gutierrez and therefore they are in constant communication with her relatives and the Peruvian authorities.

“From now on, the embassy has been in constant contact with the Peruvian National Police and Prosecutor’s Office to monitor and assist in the procedures that were carried out to coordinate the search for a person and the investigation of the concomitant circumstances … to his disappearance,” the agency said in a statement. .